Jonathan Sterne

MP3: The Meaning of a Format

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Produktbeschreibung

Jonathan Sterne shows that understanding the historical meaning of the MP3, the world's most common format for recorded audio, involves rethinking the place of digital technologies in the broader universe of twentieth-century communication history.

Produktdetails

• Sign, Storage, Transmission
• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: Juli 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 520g
• ISBN-13: 9780822352877
• ISBN-10: 0822352877
• Artikelnr.: 34748053

Autorenporträt

Jonathan Sterne

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments ix
Format Theory 1
1. Perceptual Techniques 32
2. Nature Builds No Telephones 61
3. Perceptual Coding and the Domestication of Noise 92
4. Making a Standard 128
5. Of MPEG, Measurement,and Men 148
6. Is Music a Thing? 184
The End of MP3 227
Notes 247
List of Interviews 295
Bibliography 299
Index 331